WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump voiced on Saturday (Oct 31) his help for the “good” head of US chip large Nvidia, Jensen Huang after a report that he was focused by a Chinese language spy plot.
Trump mentioned the US was trying “very carefully” on the concern.
The New York Occasions reported on Oct 29 that US intelligence officers concluded {that a} Chinese language govt linked to a Singapore-based information centre firm, who had interacted with Huang, had been funnelling info to Beijing.
China has dismissed the report as “groundless hypothesis”.
“I’ve a variety of respect for Jensen. I didn’t know concerning the particular factor, however I hope he’s going to be OK. He’s an ideal, good particular person, and we wish to shield our good individuals,” Trump advised reporters at his Florida residence.
“We’re going to test it out very carefully,” he added.
Requested if he would retain Huang as an advisor, he mentioned: “I want to say sure. I imply, except we discover out one thing on the contrary, I’ve at all times discovered Jensen Huang to be very above board.”
“However you understand, you’re dealing in a really complicated concern,” he added.
Huang has suggested Trump on AI coverage and was amongst tech CEOs who joined the US chief on his go to to Beijing in Might to satisfy Chinese language President Xi Jinping.
The Taiwan-born businessman has advocated for the usage of his firm’s chips in China, the place Beijing has been accelerating growth of its personal semiconductors.
